BRITAIN
ic Birmingham
Aug 2 2005
By Emma Pinch, Religious Affairs Reporter
West Midlands Police is to consider extraditing a priest accused of abusing children after he snubbed a request by the Archbishop of Birmingham to return to Britain.
Father James Robinson moved to the US in 1985 amid allegations he had abused several young boys during the 70s and 80s.
He was alleged to have systematically abused youngsters while training at Oscott College, Sutton Coldfield, as parish priest at St Elizabeth's in Foleshill, and then again at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Cradley Heath.
It has emerged that three Midland men are now suing the Archbishop of Birmingham and the archdiocese's trustees in the High Court for failing to protect them against Robinson.